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South America

Chilean Navy Diesel-Electric Attack Submarine Appears In San Diego (Updated)

Working with foreign diesel-electric submarines provides valuable training to the US Navy, which only operates nuclear-powered types.

South Korea

South Korea’s Mysterious Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Tested From Underwater Platform: Report

Officials remain tight-lipped, but it seems South Korea's latest submarine could start ballistic missile tests fairly soon.

U.S. Homeland

MREs Are Fine Dining Compared To What Troops Ate In The Revolutionary War

Despite being nearly inedible, the preserved foods carried by the Continental Army helped ensure victory over the British in the Revolutionary War.

Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Independence Day Edition

Enjoy the holiday weekend with the Bunker Talk crew!

Afghanistan

State Department’s New Black Hawks In Afghanistan Could Prove Especially Important After Withdrawal

The State Department's Air Wing could be critical to keeping Americans safe if the security situation in the country continues to deteriorate.

Indo-Pacific

Watch Pilots Get Rescued After Their Ditched 737 Sank Off Oahu (Updated)

The crew of the Transair Cargo Boeing 737 freighter was forced to ditch off the coast of Hawaii shortly after taking off.

China

Flanker Fighter Appears Among Unmanned Aircraft At China’s Secretive Test Base

Is China flight testing its own artificial intelligence 'brain' for its combat aircraft?

Orbital Systems

Space Force Plans To Place New Early Warning Satellites Into Non-Traditional Orbits Closer To Earth

The Space and Missile Systems Center is looking to Medium Earth Orbit for a new layer of missile detection satellites planned for 2022.

China

Is China Reviving America’s Cold War-Era “Shell Game” ICBM Deployment Strategy?

Satellite images of the Gobi Desert show many new missile silos under construction, hinting at the possibility of a guileful deployment concept.

U.S. Air Force

Meet The MC-145B Wily Coyote Armed Special Ops Transport Plane

The converted Polish transport aircraft is one of five aircraft U.S. Special Operations Command is testing as part of its Armed Overwatch program.

Europe

Switzerland Chooses F-35 As Its Next Fighter Jet

The Swiss say the Joint Strike Fighter emerged as the most capable and cheapest option after a competitive evaluation.

F-16

Draken Becomes The Next Red Air Private Contractor To Acquire F-16 Fighter Jets

The adversary support contractor's impressive fleet could add as many as 40 second-hand F-16s from Dutch stocks.

Skyborg

Skyborg AI Computer “Brain” Successfully Flew A General Atomics Avenger Drone

The Air Force's Skyborg continues to be integrated into more aircraft, signaling that a variety of aircraft could someday be flown by the AI system.

U.S. Navy

U.S. Destroyer Shows Up Right Off Crimea On Vessel Tracking Sites But It Never Left Port (Updated)

This bizarre spoofing incident around the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea is the second of its kind in the last two weeks.

U.S. Homeland

DoE’s Extreme-Security Nevada Test Site Touts The “Ultimate Playground” For Drone Tests

Video posted on YouTube shows off the unique drone and anti-drone testing facility known as Port Gaston located deep within restricted airspace.

Ohio Class

U.S. Navy Ballistic Missile Submarine’s Gibraltar Visit Is First In Over Two Decades

The Navy has shared some additional details about USS Alaska's very rare stopover, which comes amid a flurry of naval activity in the region.

U.S. Air Force

New Systems For Navigation In GPS Denied Combat Environments Tested In Air Force’s Agile Pod

The Air Force is preparing to fight without GPS via new navigational technologies that could be essential to winning tomorrow's wars.

Eastern Europe

Russian Jets Armed With Anti-Ship Missiles “Harassed” Dutch Frigate In The Black Sea

Su-30SM fighter jets repeatedly buzzed the Dutch warship and jammed some of its electronic systems.

Ohio Class

American Ballistic Missile Submarine Makes Rare Stop In Gibraltar

USS Alaska's highly unusually port visit in the Mediterranean is just the most recent curiously public appearance by one of the Navy's 'boomers.'

Royal Navy

F-35B From British Carrier Flies Over Russian Forces Training To Sink Enemy Warships

Tu-22M3 bombers and MiG-31K fighters have also been brandishing their anti-ship missiles during the latest round of drills in the Mediterranean.